Nutpicking

Nutpicking, named in analogy to "nitpicking" and "cherry picking," is the logical fallacy of smearing a whole group of people by finding a few extreme examples, typically in open comment threads, and holding them up as representative of that group.[1] Nutpicking is similar to the straw man fallacy; the difference is the difference between attacking an argument that only a few extreme people use and attacking an argument that no one uses at all.

Examples

Czechcatholicprofessor of theology Ctirad Václav Pospíšil blames partisan of militant atheismDawkins for picking the oponions of problematic fundamentalist groups and equivocating them with all Christian believers. He calls such approach deceit and points out that after applying it together with interpreting the opinion of opponent in the most twisted sense a person does not engage in an open dialog but struggles with his or her own strawman instead.[2]